In-situ visualization, monitoring and analysis of electric field domain reversal process in ferroelectric crystals by digital holography

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1832-1842

  Grilli, Simonetta ^a   Ferraro, Pietro ^a   Paturzo, Melania ^a   Alfieri, Domenico ^a   De Natale, Paolo ^a   De Angelis, Marella ^b   De Nicola, Sergio ^b   Finizio, Andrea ^b   Pierattini, Giovanni ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; HOLOGRAPHY; INTERFEROMETERS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MORPHOLOGY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE SHIFT; POLARIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER HOLOGRAPHY; ELECRO-OPTIC MATERIALS; PERIODIC POLING; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHING (QPM);

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 2942750447     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001832     Document Type: Article

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